Top Tennis Manga Recommendations

MASHLE

Also known as Mashle: Magic and Muscles.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy

This is a world of magic where magic is used for everything. But deep in the forest exists a young man who spends his time training and bulking up. He can't use magic, but he enjoys a peaceful life with his father. But one day, his life is put in danger! Will his muscular body protect him from the magic users who are out to get him? Powerfully trained muscles crush magic as this abnormal magical fantasy begins!



Note:
- Eleventh place of Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.

Tags: Magic , Fitness , Shounen , Surreal Comedy , Parody , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Slapstick , Time Manipulation , War , Primarily Male Cast , Asexual , Aromantic , Food , LGBTQ+ Themes , Unrequited Love , Volleyball , Tennis

GE: Good Ending

Also known as GE: Good Ending.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Romance , Sports

High school student Eiji is in love with Aki, the head of the tennis team, but he is unable to ask her out. Another student, Yuki, discovers his obsession with Aki, and promises to help him get closer to her… but Yuki’s help comes at a cost, and soon, the analytical, strategic Eiji finds himself deep in the messy turmoil of emotion...



Tags: School , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Baseball , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , School Club , Tennis , Photography , Female Harem

Baby Steps

Also known as Baby Steps.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Sports

Eiichiro Maruo is a straight-A student who decides to take up tennis as a side hobby upon entering high school. At the tennis school he runs into Natsu—a bit airheaded, but nobody can beat her in passion for the sport. Soon Eiichiro gets addicted to tennis...and when he applies his academic skills to improving his game, the results will change his life forever!



Tags: Tennis , Shounen , Male Protagonist , School , Primarily Male Cast , Foreign

Tennis no Ouji-sama

Also known as The Prince of Tennis.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

Ryoma Echizen just joined the Seishun Academy's tennis team, which is known for being one of the most competitive teams in Japan. Its members are incredibly talented, gifted, and athletic. With rigorous and extremely intense practices, the upperclassmen of the team expect the very best from themselves and they expect even more from the new members of the team. While most of the freshmen are on pins and needles hoping they won't get cut from the team, Ryoma Echizen is confident, cool, and collected. Some might even say he's cocky, but at least he's got the skills to back up his attitude. With his virtually unreturnable "twist serve," Ryoma is sure to make the starting team. Join Ryoma and the other first years, as they train hard, make friends, and try to find a place for themselves on the team. And meet Ryoma's cute but chronically shy classmate Sakuno Ryuzaki. She's got a big crush on Ryoma, but will he ever notice her? Ryoma Echizen is the Prince of Tennis. He may be ready for the Seishun Academy tennis team, but are THEY ready for HIM?



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Tennis , School , Anti-Hero , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , School Club , Shounen , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Skip

Happy!

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

One day the Yakuza comes knocking on the door of the orphaned Umino siblings. The oldest brother has gone into hiding after acquiring a huge debt. Afraid for her brother, Miyuki agrees to take responsibility for the loan. The yakuza wants her to become a ho, Miyuki wants to be a tennis pro. Turns out she used to be a very promising player before her parents died. However, becoming a pro is difficult when friends are few and everybody else conspires to make Miyuki's life hell.



Tags: Tennis , Bullying , Ojou-sama , Female Protagonist , Yakuza , Seinen , Tragedy , Love Triangle , Nudity , Fugitive , LGBTQ+ Themes , Foreign , Language Barrier

Kakao 79%

Also known as Kakao 79%.

Status: Cancelled
Genres: Comedy , Romance

The story of the bittersweet youth of two childhood friends.

Tags: School , Full Color , Shoujo , Tennis , Heterosexual

Marmalade Boy

Also known as Marmalade Boy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Miki’s life was pretty ordinary until the day her parents told her they were swapping spouses with another couple! Thanks to this unconventional arrangement, Miki now has two new stepparents and a hot new stepbrother, Yuu! Miki isn’t exactly thrilled with her new situation, and though Yuu is super cute, he’s also kind of a jerk. Can Miki sort out her complicated feelings for him and come to terms with her new family?



Tags: Shoujo , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Inseki , School , Tennis , Family Life , Work , Age Gap , Unrequited Love , Time Skip

Koukousei Kazoku

Also known as High School Family: Kokosei Kazoku.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Spring is in the air, and Kotaro is about to begin his first year of high school. He's full of hope and anticipation of a wonderful life at his new school, only to have his dreams crushed by... his family?! Isobe Isobee Monogatari ~ Ukiyo wa Tsuraiyo creator Ryo Nakama's latest series combines family and school life gags, making it feel familiar but also fresh and new. This new genre of comedy will be sure to make the grade!



Tags: School , Surreal Comedy , Family Life , Baseball , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Tennis , Delinquents , Shogi , Volleyball , Animals , Male Protagonist

Shin Tennis no Ouji-sama

Status: Releasing
Genres: Sports

In Japan an "All Star Team" is being formed, containing the 50 best tennis players from the entire country.

Tags: Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Tennis

Itazura na Kiss

Also known as Itazura na Kiss.

Status: Cancelled
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Ever since she entered high school, Kotoko Aihara wanted to be in the same class as Naoki Irie. The only problem, Irie is the smartest student in school while Kotoko is one of the dumbest. Now in 3rd year high school, she still isn't there. One day, her home gets destroyed and the only place else to go was to Irie's home. Now that she lives close to him, will their relationship be the same, or will it become greater than it is?

Notes:
- Includes the one-shot "Boku ga Naku"
- Includes the one-shot "Pink no Yuki ga Futtara..."
- The manga was canceled due to the unexpected death of the author.

Tags: Shoujo , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Tsundere , Work , School , College , Time Skip , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Medicine , Tennis , Family Life

Mahou Shoujo Site Sept

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Mahou Shoujo , Psychological , Supernatural

Tsurara Takahashi is a middle school student who belongs to the Shinzen tennis club. However, she carries a great misfortune that she cannot confess to her friends: she met the mysterious Mahou Shoujo Site and was given a stick in the shape of an electric drill.

Note: Volume 2 contains a side story series consisting of three chapters.

Tags: Bullying , School , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Crime , Magic , Tomboy , Suicide , Tennis

Ace wo Nerae!

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sports

A story of an ordinary high school girl who gradually discovers her hidden talent of tennis through severe trainings designed by her strict coach. Can she become an "Ace" tennis player?

Tags: Tennis , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , School Club , Ojou-sama

Gorin no Megami-sama: Nadeshiko Ryou no Medal Gohan

Status: Hiatus
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Sports

The protagonist, Kominato Ryou, whose only skill is cooking, is accepted by his father into the prestigious Itadaki High School, on the condition that he work as a cook at the residence. However, the "dorm" is a female dorm where future gold medalists live. The dietary demands of these high-level athletes are naturally high. Accept the challenge to fill their stomachs and prepare their bodies for the Olympics! A group of schoolgirls + an Olympic gourmet! The delicious harem romantic comedy begins!

Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School , Female Harem , Food , Tennis , Judo , Swimming , Athletics

Teekyuu

Also known as Teekyuu.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

The four girls of the Kameido High School tennis club play and don't play tennis in their side-splittingly funny daily lives. The new club member, Yuri Oshimoto, is forced to be the straightman to her idiotic upperclassmen. Then there's Kanae Shinjou, the stupidity-machine who can't play tennis even though she's in the tennis club; Marimo Bandou, the unpredictable super-pervert from Kansai; and Nasuno Takamiya, the air-headed, mysterious rich girl who tries to solve everything with money. Today, tomorrow, and the day after, regardless if they're all there or not, it's a tennis manga you can't help but roar in laughter at!? And in the fall of 2012, you might get caught up in the “Teekyuu” whirlwind even further!?



Tags: School , Shounen , Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School Club , Primarily Female Cast , Tennis

Shanimuni GO

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sports

Ide Nobuhisa has always been a boy full of vitality and a young promise in the field of track running. However one day after a competition, he stumbled over the pretitest pair of legs he had ever seen! Their owner, a young girl practicing tennis makes a promise with Ide that she will teach him how to play. After seeing the name tag on her racket bag, Ide puts all his efforts into passing the test for accessing the same high school she goes to, Makunogama. In his first days in his new high school, Ide discovers two things: an old friend of his is also attending, and nobody knows of a girl with the name he saw on the tag! He and his friend join the school tennis club, where they meet another first year, Takita Louis (Ruui), a very good tennis player with a little of an attitude problem.

However things start to look better for Ide when his dear missing girl appears in the school! As it happens, he misread her name on the tag. Takada Hinako was well known as one of the members of the tennis club, but some time after meeting Ide for the first time she suffered an accident and has now lost the use of her left leg. Hinako is no longer a happy spirited girl and tells Ide she can't fulfill her promise.

Eventually the opposite characters of Louis and Ide end up confronting each other in a tennis match. Ide is an incredible fast learner, but he is no match... until Hinako decides to give him advice. Things only get worse, however, when their club president decides to put Louis and Ide as a doubles pair for the upcoming inter-highschool tournament!

Tags: Tennis , Shoujo , Male Protagonist , School Club

W's

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Okita Tsurugi is a 3rd grader who's father passed away when he was young. He lives with his mother. His father was a famous tennis player. Tsurugi yearns to play tennis too and joins a tennis club, where he meets a girl, Sanada, who's a tennis prodigy.

Tags: Shounen , Tennis

Sorairo Ageha

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Sports

When Ageha was little she watched a tennis game and was affected by a passionate young tennis player. Years later she was determined to become a number one tennis player and to join the tennis club in her new high school.

Unexpectedly, on her first day of school she finds out that her new seat mate is none other than Takeru, the tennis player she was inspired from. But her excitement lasts shortly since Takeru turns out to be a jerk and he even gave up on tennis. When things couldn't turn worser, Ageha realises that there isn’t any tennis club in her school! Despite the unlucky start, she is still determined to create the Tennis Club and she works overnight for days to clean the tennis court all on her own. She also keeps practicing alone even though her rackets had been broken days before by Takeru. But her perseverance is slowly touching the boy. Surprisingly, he shows up during her training dressed in a tennis gear. And he even gives Ageha a new tennis racket and starts coaching her. Is this the start of a new love on the tennis field?



Tags: Shoujo , School Club , Tennis

Aisaretaino

Status: Finished
Genres:

Izaki was always confident in school who had to work at being the best. It's very much a you get what you put in scenario. He's more than capable of rising to the task whether it's club or tennis. He also enjoys being contrary to others and seeing through their bullshit and bluster which is so refreshing. He doesn't even do it to show off, just because people's shallowness annoy him.

Hakamada is the quiet one. Still waters run deep asiding from the fact he always seems to look vapid. He's the prodigy insomuch as things just come easily to him. He doesn't have to work or study and just manages to come out on top which is frustrating for Izaki who realizes he'll never reach that level no matter how hard he tries.

Tags: Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Tennis , Writing , Yandere

Crazy Love Game

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Not every girl has the misfortune to see the boy she likes confess to the most beautiful girl on the tennis team--or the luck to see him get rejected! Unfortunately for Kazusa, her beloved Kurosaki has absolutely no interest in dating her even after he's been turned down, and a confession from another upperclassmen only serves to make this "love game" even crazier.

Includes the one-shots Tsukinami Rose and Princess Ship.

Tags: Love Triangle , Tennis

Houkago no Ouji-sama

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Sports

A Prince of Tennis tribute in the form of comic strips.

Tags: Tennis , Primarily Male Cast , 4-koma , Shounen , Ensemble Cast